Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.”…
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Bringing Back Professor Higgins – Why We Should Be More Concerned with Teaching Elocution
By: Sophie Vivienne Kottmayer Tiptoeing through the minefield of international business communication in itself is already stressful enough, as speaking another language is not…
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Why Use the IPA in Class
By Steve Hirschhorn The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the result of work by 19th and early 20th century phoneticians such as Henry Sweet,…
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The Recent History of Pronunciation Teaching in English Language Teaching
by Steve Hirschhorn In Europe, pronunciation teaching prior to the late 19th c relied largely on imitation along with approximations derived from spelling and…
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Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost
Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost Dan Frost has a French doctorate in English for Specific Purposes and Teaching Theory. After reading Languages and Linguistics…
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Book Review: The Book of Pronunciation
The Book of Pronunciation When I was first doing my CELTA course in Seoul, South Korea, I learnt lots of new techniques and ideas…
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IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation
IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation. Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking…
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Newton, Beethoven, and Me: Vowel Color Connection
Newton, Beethoven, and Me: Vowel Color Connection The Evolution of the Vowel Color Connection One spring afternoon in 2001, I was ten steps away…
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